On Wednesday, 1 April 2015 at 13:35:22 UTC, ketmar wrote:
people with Java/C/C++/etc. background tend to forget about the
power of
metaprogramming: they have no such tool at hand, so they don't
even think
about it.
three things that one need to become used of are UFCS (so
std.algorighm
functions chains nicely), lambdas, and metaprogramming. but
that has
downside: when you get used to those, you simply can't get back
to Java/C/
C++/etc. anymore, they feels like something from the past
age... ;-)
I tend to think mixins are used too much myself. They slow down
compilation and inflate memory usage a lot. I always weigh the
costs against the benefits.
